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This brocade box is not big, and it is also made of golden nanmu. Yang Jing just opened the box to take a look at the contents, and immediately threw the box into the storage space.

Because there is nothing in the box except a piece of paper that looks like raw rice paper.

It was precisely because the box contained a piece of paper that Yang Jing threw the box into the storage space in a panic. The things here have been stored for more than a thousand years. Who knows if there will be other changes to the paper inside after the box is opened?

The most important thing is that even just by taking a look, Yang Jing could see that this piece of paper was much older than the paper used for hand-copied Buddhist scriptures found before.

Those hand-copied Buddhist scriptures are all written on hard yellow paper, and the hard yellow paper is well preserved. It will be absolutely fine for a thousand years, but the paper that was placed in the brocade box just seen is obviously not written on hard yellow paper. On paper, it looks more like the earlier Cai Lun paper.

After throwing the box and the paper into the storage space, Yang Jing was slightly relieved, and then his consciousness entered the storage space, and he opened the brocade box again with his consciousness, and gently opened the paper.

Fortunately, the paper is well preserved, at least there is no such thing as turning into flying ash when you touch it. Yang Jing let go of his heart, but when he saw the handwriting revealed after the paper was opened, After that, the heart that had just fallen back to its original place started beating violently again uncontrollably.

In the ninth year of Yonghe, at the age of Kuichou, at the beginning of late spring, we will meet at Lanting in Shanyin, Kuaiji.

Just after reading a dozen or so words, Yang Jing felt his head buzzing!

This, isn't this the Lanting Collection Preface?

No wonder Yang Jing thought so, the dozen or so words he saw just now were so familiar.

On the third day of March in the ninth year of Jin Yonghe, Wang Xizhi, who was then the internal historian of Kuaiji, and his friends Xie An, Sun Chuo and other 41 people were drinking and composing poems at the Lanting Yaji in Shanyin, Kuaiji. Wang Xizhi compiled these poems and prose into a collection, and wrote a preface, describing the incident of the flowing water and expressing the inner emotion caused by it. This preface is Preface to Lanting Collection, and Wang Xizhi personally wrote a Preface to Lanting Collection.

And the beginning of these ten characters is exactly the beginning of the world-famous Lanting Collection Preface.

Yang Jing took a deep breath, tried to let go of himself, and calmed down his mood before continuing to read with consciousness. As a result, the full text was twenty-eight lines long, three hundred and twenty-four characters long, the same as The Preface to the Lanting Collection Exactly.

The most important thing is that Yang Jing only saw a small number of appreciative seals on this piece of paper suspected to be the authentic work of Wang Xizhi, unlike those handed down copies and facsimiles of later generations that are full of appreciative seals.

Is this really the authentic work of Wang Xizhi?

You must know that after Wang Xizhi wrote the Preface to the Collection of Lanting, the original work has been preserved in the family. It was not until the Tang Taizong period that Li Er got it into his own hands. The authentic work of Preface was buried with me.

If Li Er really buried the original Preface to the Lanting Collection with him, it would just explain why there are so few seals of appreciation on this Preface to the Collection of Lanting.

This Lanting Collection Preface has not gone through the misfortunes of those later generations!

Yang Jing suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked Shengjie to appraise the Preface to the Lanting Collection, but the answer given by Shengjie was that Yang Jing could no longer control himself. Even wearing a mask, he was still excited. He yelled twice.

Preface to the Collection of Lanting, Wang Xizhi, 353.

This Lanting Collection Preface turned out to be the authentic work of Wang Xizhi!

Yang Jing couldn't help being excited, it's because the title of Lanting Collection Preface is too big.

To put it bluntly, in some respects, this piece of copybook known as the world's best running script is even bigger than the name of Chuan Guo Yuxi.

Of course, in terms of preciousness, the ten Lanting Collection Prefaces are no match for the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom. The Chuan Guo Yuxi is the national treasure that has carried the national destiny of China for thousands of years, and the Lanting Collection Preface is just a piece of calligraphy, and the two are not on the same level at all.

In the words of Shengjie, Chuanguo Yuxi is a super-grade item, while Lanting Collection Preface can only be regarded as second-grade at best, and it is not even as important as Yongle Dadian and Siku Quanshu.

It’s just that the Chuanguo Yuxi has been missing for thousands of years, and the original copy of Yongle Dadian has also been missing for hundreds of years. All that remain are copies, which are still incomplete. Modern people have no confidence in finding these treasures. .

However, although the original copy of Lanting Collection Preface disappeared long ago, even longer than Chuan Guo Yuxi's disappearance, after all, there are copies and facsimiles of this copybook that have been circulated among the people. The museum is for the public to appreciate, so if you only talk about the fame of certain aspects, The Preface to the Lanting Collection is great.

Now, the authentic work of Preface to Lanting Collection suddenly appeared in front of Yang Jing, how could this not make Yang Jing happy? Not to mention several of his masters, especially the second master Xiao Lao is a famous calligrapher. Yang Jing was influenced by Xiao Lao and loved calligraphy and painting very much.

Now that the authentic work of Lanting Collection Preface has appeared, Yang Jing is of course excited.

But, how could this Lanting Collection Preface appear here? Wasn't this copybook buried in Zhaoling along with Emperor Li Er?

When it comes to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, most people will first think of his outstanding political achievements, but in fact Li Er is not only a great emperor, but also a calligraphy lover, especially the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi, the sage of calligraphy. The works of other calligraphers are eclipsed in Li Er's eyes, and his fascination and obsession with Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is no less than that of today's star fans and enthusiasts.

So Li Er started his obsessive search for the authentic calligraphy of Wang Xizhi. When superiors are good, subordinates will naturally know how to match what they like. All kinds of authentic calligraphy of Wang Xizhi emerged in Chang'an City all of a sudden, and veteran officials such as Chu Suiliang and Ouyang Xun also began to identify the authentic calligraphy of Wang Xizhi day and night.

According to historical records, the ministers identified more than 2,000 pieces of Wang Xizhi's authentic works, and finally dedicated them to Li Er. However, among the many authentic works, Wang Xizhi's precious literary and ink Preface to the Lanting Collection is missing. This made Emperor Li Er unable to let go, so he began to study hard about its whereabouts.

In the end, the hard work paid off, and Li Er learned that the original Preface to the Lanting Collection was preserved in the hands of a monk Biancai, a disciple of Wang Xizhi's seventh generation Sun Zhiyong. Li Er repeatedly asked for it but was rejected by Biancai. In order to obtain it, Li Er did not hesitate to send the censor Xiao Yi to pretend to be a scholar to get close to Biancai, and only then did he look for an opportunity to obtain Lanting Collection Preface.

Li Er regarded the hard-won original Lanting Collection Preface as the most precious, so it is rumored that the original work was left as a funeral object when Li Er died.

But what is interesting is that Wen Tao, a well-known tomb robber in the history of the Five Dynasties period, did not see the Lanting Collection Preface in his list of unearthed cultural relics after he stole Li Er's Zhaoling Mausoleum, so there are rumors that It was Li Er's son Tang Gaozong Li Zhi who secretly exchanged for the authentic Lanting Collection Preface, and was buried in the Qianling Mausoleum where Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were buried together.

But now the authentic works of Lanting Collection Preface appear in the mausoleum that Wu Zetian built for himself. What does this mean?

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